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The definition of a bribe is rather arcane. It isn’t even clear whether they are harmful. Lew Rockwell and Pierre Lemieux have made the case that public bribes are simply the cost of doing business, similar to taxation, and an opportunity to overcome at least some harmful governmental regulation and gain entry into markets. Arguing about the

[Based on a lecture given at the 2011 Property and Freedom Society Conference in Bodrum, Turkey] “In many places Iraqis greeted us with cheers. In other places people shot at us. It was very confusing.” As a combat veteran, I’m often asked what soldiers think about our wars. Some soldiers are constitutionalists and for them I have the most

Introduction Although European libertarians continue to produce great works of theory and activism, the United States has been, and seems to remain, the epicenter of the libertarian movement. There are no prominent protests in Europe calling for less governmental help as there are in the United States. Murray Rothbard’s essay “Left and Right: The

Birthplace of Ludwig Von Mises Akademika Hnatyuk 13 Lviv, Ukraine   That Ludwig von Mises was born in Lviv (today, Ukraine, then Austro-Hungary) is familiar to anyone who has studied his life. However, the specific place of his birth until recently remained unknown. The problem of determining the house in which the famous economist and liberal